9780130858436

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Summary

This comprehensive and authoritative book illustrates art from the 1940's and stresses theindividuality of the artists in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts. The book focuses onthe meaning of the major works and innovations. It features nearly 600 illustrations (approximately half in color) representing art since 1940, both in Europe and America. It explores the full range of periods, artists, and movements: New York in the Forties; Calder, Hofmann, Gorky, Motherwell, De Kooning; Existentialism (Pollock, Newman, Rothko, David Smith); The New European Masters of the Late Forties (Dubuffet, Giacometti, Bacon), plus so much more. For anyone interested in Postwar Art.

Author Biography

Jonathan Fineberg has taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition

10

(1)

Acknowledgments

11

(2)

Preface

13

(1)

Introduction

14

(6)

Approaching Art as a Mode of Thought

14

(2)

The Concept of the Avant-Garde

16

(2)

The Critical Point of View of this Book

18

(2)

New York in the Forties

20

(22)

New York Becomes the Center

20

(11)

Surrealism

20

(4)

American Pragmatism and Social Relevance

24

(2)

The Depression and the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.)

26

(2)

The Availability of European Modernism

28

(2)

The Europeans in New York

30

(1)

The Sense of a New Movement in New York

31

(11)

Commonalities and Differences Among the Artists of the New York School